Recalculate the social cost of carbon
The science is ripe to update estimates of CO2 emissions costs. Calls to scrap the calculation are misguided.
Technically, the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide (SC-CO₂), and the social cost of other greenhouse gases such as methane (SC-CH₄, or SCM) or nitrous oxide (SC-N₂O, or SCN).
The science is ripe to update estimates of CO2 emissions costs. Calls to scrap the calculation are misguided.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
By Kelly Macnamara & Marlowe Hood/Agence France-Presse
by Gernot Wagner, David Anthoff, Maureen Cropper, Simon Dietz, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Ben Groom, J. Paul Kelleher, Frances C. Moore, and James H. Stock
The U.S. is updating a number with the potential to push federal regulations into overdrive.
Spring 2021
NYU Wagner workshop organized by Jesse D. Jenkins, Leah Stokes, and Gernot Wagner
NYU Wagner
The Numbers Behind Exxon’s Support for a Carbon Tax
If $40/t CO₂ were the "right" price, tax carbon and move on. $40/t isn't the right price. The Exxon-backed tax isn't it.
By Marlowe Hood/Agence France-Presse
Special session in memory of Martin L. Weitzman
Uncertainty is not our friend
A $40 carbon dioxide price? Try $100, $200, or possibly more.
Greenville, NC
by Kent D. Daniel, Robert B. Litterman, and Gernot Wagner
by J. Paul Kelleher and Gernot Wagner
by J. Paul Kelleher and Gernot Wagner
Klimaschock Gespräch mit Joseph Gepp